Brief Life History of Minnie Blanche
When Minnie Blanche Hopkins was born on 11 October 1857, in Ripley, Union Township, Brown, Ohio, United States, her father, Orlando Johnston Hopkins, was 27 and her mother, Malissa Ruhama Sargent, was 26. She married James Wesley Hammond on 24 October 1877. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Kansas, United States in 1870. She died on 23 December 1904, in Cheyenne, Laramie, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Cheyenne, Laramie, Wyoming, United States.
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Sources (8)
- Minnie Hammond in household of James Hammond, "United States Census, 1900"
- Minnie B Hopkins, "Kansas, Marriages, 1840-1935"
- Minnie Hopkins Hammond, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1861
Kansas is the 34th state
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh (Glamorgan): variant of Hopkin with genitival or excrescent -s. In Ireland, where the name is also frequent, it is sometimes Gaelicized as Mac Oibicín.
History: Stephen Hopkins (c. 1580–1644) was a pilgrim on the Mayflower in 1620 and one of the founders of Plymouth Colony. At his death he left seven children and eighteen grandchildren.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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